Sacrament of bodies /Romeo Oriogun.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
- African poetry book series .
Poems.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Before Your Mama Knew Us as Light -- The Ritual of Giving a Body its Name -- Cathedral of a Broken Body -- Departure -- Kumbaya -- Saddest Night Alive -- Elegy for a Burnt Friend -- Coming Out -- How to Survive the Fire -- At Udi -- Denial -- The Guilt of Exile -- To the Man Who Mocked My Scared Body -- Boy -- Pink Club -- Before You Leave -- The Birthday -- A Viral Picture -- Satan Be Gone -- What We Do Not Want -- The Lost Chapter of the Bible Written After God Stopped Receiving the Smoke of Burnt Flesh -- Elegua -- The Queer Boy Remembers Colonization -- Sacrament of Bodies -- I Do Not Want My Body to Fly -- FM -- My Body Is No Miracle -- My Tinder Date Speak of Fruits -- A Reversed Epithalamium or What Didn't See the Light -- Heaven Is A Back Alley Without God -- Goodbye -- Exile -- Battle of the Rams -- Finding Home -- What the World Won't Show Us -- Everything Must Die -- On the 23rd Death Anniversary of my Father -- Prelude to Freedom -- Sermon of Pain -- Meeting My Mother through Death -- After a Blackout.
"Sacrament of Bodies examines queerness in Nigerian society, masculinity, and the place of memory in grief and survival"--